Hal
noun
a male given name, form of Harold.
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Hal
1 American
[hal]
/ hæl /
noun
HAL
2
American
abbreviation
hal-
3
American
hal-
British
combining form
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This John Stewart is purposefully calm and assured, even when Kyle Chandler’s Hal Jordan, an entitled jerk clinging to crusted-over glory, provokes him.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
“In many ways, Hal Jordan was born for the role he would eventually play,” says his interviewer in a voiceover, listing all boxes of American heroism that he checks: Hal is an Air Force veteran.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Hal doesn’t want to be replaced by John.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Hal: “Yeah, but it’s the way she hates them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
‘Then Hal can’t have seen one,’ said Ted.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Later that night, the festival would hold an outdoor screening of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” featuring HAL 9000, one of cinema’s most famous rogue artificial intelligences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Halliburton HAL 0.93%increase; green up pointing triangle , one of the largest U.S. oil-field-services firms, is also in talks to bring its suite of equipment to oil producers in Venezuela, some of the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The RCB team had arrived by a special flight at the old HAL airport to be received by Karnataka Deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
The power of the waltz here is how it humanizes the space station as it’s about to be taken over by an inanimate AI, namely the computer called HAL.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
HAL, a town of Brabant, Belgium, about 9 m.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
Dutch and Ger.; all are from the Teutonic base hal-, pre-Teut. kal-, to cover; cf.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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